On Nov 7, 2009, at 6:57 AM, Andreas Jung wrote:
>> - no more external hosting of packages. If people
> want their packages listed on Pypi, they should
> be required to upload their packages on PyPI
> (no more issues with non-available external server,
> no more issues with mirroring external servers,
> no more issues with wrong download URLs within
> package metadata)
>
Amen!
Externally hosted packages are a royal PITA and it makes it so much
harder to automatically install dependencies. This field should at the
least be marked in the Distutils docs with a big "DEPRECATED: DO NOT
USE" note.